Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
L BRAVE AGENT.
He Frightens Two Would BE Robbers On
by Calling for a Gun,

He Frightens Two Would BE Robbers On
by Calling for a Gun.
Special to the Gazette.
Cisco, TEX, Nov. 19.-Deputy Sheriff
J. 1. Thomas received the following tels-
gram lest night about O'Clock: mBsss-
land, Tex, Nov. Is, j. l. Thomas, Cisco
Look out for Gnd arrest two men. One
man Ave feet and seven inches, nineteen
yesrs, light COmplexioned and blue eyes,
light hair, dark clothes. Left here with
cut q hat. The other msn about five feet
nine, dark hair and dark eyes, black coat
snd vest and light pants. Think botn
have valices. A. II FRIsBE, Agent"
Mr.. Thomas immediately took an en-
CINE ard went to E4stland, running, very
slowly, but found no one until Siser
reaching that place, where ne found two
men that suited the descriptions but on
investigation they proved themselves in
nocent.
Mr.. Frisbie, the sgert, says about
| O'Clock last night, wRile he and his wife
were writing, some one knocked at the
| door and he got up and opened it, and as
| he did so, two masked men came
down on him with revolVers and
ordered MIN to throw up his hands and
| shot at ABOUT the same time, but instead
Of throwing up his hands Mr.. Frisbfe
shut the door in their faces and called to
his wife for his gun. The firing of the
shot put cut Gil the lights in the office,
and Mr.. Ffis5ie succeeded in securing
teverything and pulling down the win
dOWs, SO the robbers could not get in
without breaking in; but the door being
| shut 10 their face and the lights going Gus
/ TO OF or
! fed, lesving behind them white Topped
| hat. The officers are on the lookout, but
IS yet they have no clew except the hat.
Mrs. Frisbie became frightened and faint
| ed. The shot fred as Mr.. Frisbie opened
the door went very close to his body.
| Several other shots were fred but no
damage done. After they found they had
! jumped the wrong man they walked out
ON the railroad track and talked awhile
and quietly walked sway as # nothing
strange had happened. Mr.. Frisbie had
no gun, and deserves great credit for the
| bold manner in which he resisted the
would-be robbers.
! ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
! Special to the Gazette.
EAs1LAND, TEX Nov. 19 "A hold and
dastSrdly attempt was made to rob the
| express Office by two unknown masked
parties last night about O'Clock. The
facts as near as your CORE spondent has
been able to learn ere SIS follows: Last
nigh. about O'Clock MIR. Frisby, agent
| of the Texas and Pacific Railroad st this
| place, and his wife, were in the express
| office attending TO their ordinary business,
/ when some one knocked at the door.
Mr.. Frisby thinking that it was some one
| of the section hands after their mail went
to the door and threw it open and there
was presented at him Immediately with
the usual order, GLANDS up" two large
revOlvers.
| Instead of obeyipg the order Mr.. Frisby
| slammed the door to in the faces of the
would-be robbers and then they began
| firing, shooting first through the door
and then through the window. The
agent in the meantime, who, by the way
| showed that he was a man Of eXkraor-
dinsry self-possession and GOODNESS, had
fastened the Coor, turned the cOmbina-
| tion on his safe and then made some in
quiry of his wife about his shotgun, and
at the mention gun, the assassiDs de-
! parted in haste, leaving behind them one
mask and one hat. The Sheriff was i'm
mediately notified and was securing the
country last night with posse OF citi-
Zens, but so far, at noon to-day, no clue
of the outlaws has been reached. The
most outrageous part about the attempt
to rob the express Office was that the rob-
bers, when they entered the depot building
went In through the wsiting-room, and
there, in full view Of them at the ope-
rator's table, sat Mrs. Frisby, but not
withstanding her presence, when they
were refused admittsnce into,the &ce,
| fired in through the door. Mrs. Frissy,
with complacency such as Is not often
! found in ladies under such circumstances,
when inquiry was made by her husband,
| informed him where his shotgun was, and
| then left the express Office and went into
the adjoining wareroom.
It is the prevailing opinion here to-day
that the robbers were young st the busi-
ness, and that they ere probably parties
| living at no great distance from here, and
| ii is thought that the hat will yet reveal
some clew TO the perpetrators Of this the
first attempt ut robbery in our town.